Freakonomics Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal introduces an (American) football cheat sheet to help you sound like the smartest person at the party. For the record…. we’ve been Giants fans since Superbowl 21.

This isn’t the very latest episode of the Freakonomics podcast, but we were hooked into the fastenating contact when we tuned into it today… Tyler Cowen points fingers and gives some specific, surprising reasons why American food got so bad. One big historical factor: Prohibition. (photo credit: Jazz Guy)